WishList

WishList items that have been implemented will continue to be displayed here for at least one release level. Items that have been included in the current release are also listed in the News page.

Note:

In the following tables, HSI/HTAR version 3.4.x is for HPSS Release 6.2, HSI/HTAR version 3.5.x is for HPSS Release 7.1

HSI WishList Items

Version

Feature

Notes

add ability to restrict commands like "migrate" to the HPSS admins

provide tab completion of commands in interactive mode

This would require changes to the open-source libedit library

provide a "diff" or "cmp" command to compare HPSS and local or HPSS files

provide graceful quiesce capability for HPSS maintenance periods

Coming in HSI 6.1.0 for HPSS 7.5.1

use multiple n/w connections for xfers even for non-striped HPSS COSs

4.0.1.2

Need option similar to -p to preserve only modification time or access time, but not both, on gets and puts

-q option was added to GET, PUT and CP commands

Provide a way for controllers (e.g. "hopper") to obtain info such as the current file being transferred, directory being scanned, etc. to display in a gui window before the operation actually completes

4.0.1.2

HSI (and HTAR) "-?" should display authentication methods that client was compiled with

Add default COS to use in the HSIRC file

Provide ability to stage all files in an aggregate

Add ability to control or disable retry errors (number of tries, interval between retries, type of errors retried, etc)

Add full support for gzip for creating compressed archive files and compressed index files. At a minimum, support building an index for, and extracting files from, an existing gzip-ed archive file, for example,
" htar -zxvf file.tar.gz"

Add a "-exclude" command line option, and an "exclude" capability in the -L file

Implement HSI-style COS restrictions for uids/gids/acctids for the -Y option

Add default COS setting for archive and index files in htarrc file

Implement equivalent of "--same-group&quot option in gnutar, to cause
htar to attempt to set the group id of all files that are created, on an extract operation, to the gid
of the member file in the archive.

Add ability to log version information in the gateway log at startup.

Add ability for sites to include local version info in "version" log messages.